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                <p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Enterprise Architect enables you to define a standard font to apply across the model, or a font to apply to any diagrams you create personally. You can define both, but the model font overrides any user font, to ensure that all members of a project team have a consistent and coherent view of the model. This avoids the problem of one user creating a diagram in a small font, and another user trying to view it in a larger font, which distorts the diagram.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">It is recommended that a project authority sets the model default, and all project members abide by it and do not change it without project approval.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">To set the default fonts, follow the steps below:</span></p>
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<li value=1><span class="f_NumberedList">On the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Objects</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> page of the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Options</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> dialog, click on the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Configure Default Fonts</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> button. The </span><span class="f_UIControl">Configure Default Fonts</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> dialog displays.</span><br>
<span class="f_NumberedList">&nbsp;</span><br>
<img src="configure%20default%20fonts.png" width="334" height="275" border="0" alt="Configure default fonts"><br>
<span class="f_NumberedList">&nbsp;</span></li>
<li value=2><span class="f_NumberedList">To set a model font, in the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Font Face</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> field of the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Model Font</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> panel, click on the drop-down arrow and select the appropriate typeface.</span></li>
<li value=3><span class="f_NumberedList">In the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Font Size</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> field, click on the drop-down arrow and select the required font size.</span></li>
<li value=4><span class="f_NumberedList">To clear a model font so that the user font takes effect, click on the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Clear</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> button. (Ensure that this is acceptable to all other team members.)</span></li>
<li value=5><span class="f_NumberedList">To set a user font, in the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Font Face</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> field of the </span><span class="f_UIControl">User Font</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> panel, click on the drop-down arrow and select the appropriate typeface.</span></li>
<li value=6><span class="f_NumberedList">In the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Font Size</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> field, click on the drop-down arrow and select the required font size.</span></li>
<li value=7><span class="f_NumberedList">To return the user font to the Enterprise Architect default (Arial 8), click on the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Restore Defaults</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> button.</span></li>
<li value=8><span class="f_NumberedList">To save the changes, click on the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">OK</span><span class="f_NumberedList"> button.</span></li>
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<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">Both model and user fonts are overridden by specifically-defined element fonts, so that the element is viewed as designed regardless of the model or user defaults. To define the font for a specific element, right-click on the element in a diagram and select the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField">Appearance | <a href="set_element_font.htm">Set Font</a> </span><span class="f_BodyText">context menu option.</span></p>
<p class="p_BodyText"><span class="f_BodyText">If you cannot read the diagrams because the default font makes the objects and text too small, you can scale up all objects (that is, all diagram displays) to a more readable size. Everything on the diagram is enlarged to the same extent, so it remains in proportion and readable. To do this, return to the</span><span class="f_UIControl"> Diagram Appearance</span><span class="f_BodyText"> page of the </span><span class="f_UIControl">Options</span><span class="f_BodyText"> dialog and enter a suitable percentage value in the </span><span class="f_MenuKeyField"><a href="diagram_appearance.htm#scaleup">Scale view by</a></span><span class="f_BodyText"> field.</span></p>




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